Environmental/occupational lung diseases

Question 1

Ramazzini importance

Answer 1

documents the diseases of workers

-important to ask patients about their job (especially important when facing lung disease)

Question 2

unifying principles of exposure related diseases (lung)

Answer 2

1. Environmental and occupational disease is common
2. The Clinical and pathologic expression of such disease is usually indistinguishable from that of non-occupational origin
3. Much such disease is multifactorial, with non-occupational factors (cigarette smoking) playing a contributory role
4. The effects of occupational exposures often occur after a biologically predictable interval (latency) post-exposure
5. The dose of exposure is usually the strongest predictor of the (likelihood and type of) effect
6. People differ in their response to noxious exposures

Question 3

Percentage of adult asthma/COPD caused by occupational

Answer 3

20%

Question 4

Different exposure origins

Answer 4

• natural
• combustion
• synthetic
• agriculture
• chemical reactions
• unknown
• indoor

Question 5

Different exposure patterns

Answer 5

• magnitude
• context
• persistence
• duration
• geography
• conditions